Editorial Board: 'The state’s latest legal attempt to gut the Antiquities Act of 1906 may actually have some chance of success. Which is why it is so important for the people of Utah to make it clear we want no part of such a destructive action.'
Louis Williams, a Diné guide who runs Ancient Wayves River and Hiking Adventures in San Juan County, looks up at an inaccessible ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling in Bears Ears National Monument on April 16, 2021.This is the place where we would again call out the Utah Legislature, Attorney General Sean Reyes and other state leaders for spending millions of taxpayer dollars on pointless political performance art.
The nation’s courts have long read the Antiquities Act as a decision by Congress to give broad authority to any American president to preserve federally owned land of historic or geological significance. Given that history, Utah’s objection to the creation and now the restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments seemed to be without a legal leg to stand on.
This is the world into which the Utah Legislature has pledged at least $5 million in state money. Lawmakers have empowered Reyes to hire high-powered, and high-priced, law firms. Instead of an endless campaign to fight the federal government in court, Utah’s elected officials could demonstrate some real leadership by making some more reasonable arguments for federal actions that would genuinely help the Beehive State.
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